Rosamond Joscelyne Mitchell

Rosamond Joscelyne Mitchell (born 1902) was an English author and archivist.

She won the Royal Historical Society's Alexander Medal in 1936^[1][2] and in 1938 won the British Archaeological Society's Reginald Taylor Prize. Roberto Weiss cited her in his book Humanism in England during the Fifteenth Century^[1] and she cited him in her book From Bristol to Rome in the Fifteenth Century.^[3][4] After marrying Mr Leys "she chose not to seek an academic post".^[1]

Bibliography

• English People of the Past (1931)
• Life and Adventure in Medieval Europe (1934)
• Ye Good Olde Dayes (with Ierne Arthur Lifford Plunket, 1934)
• John Tiptoft, 1427-1470 (1938)
• A History of the English People (with M.D.R. Leys, Longmans, Green and Co, 1950)
• A History of London Life (with M. D. R. Leys, Pelican Books, 1958)
• The Medieval Feast (1958)
• The Medieval Tournament (1958)
• A Country Doctor in the Days of Queen Anne (1959)
• The Laurels and the Tiara: Pope Pius II, 1458-1464 (1962)
• The Spring Voyage: The Jerusalem Pilgrimage in 1458 (1964)

References

1. 1 2 3 David Rundle. "Editor's Introduction to the fourth edition of Roberto Weiss, Humanism in England during the Fifteenth Century". academia.edu. Retrieved 31 December 2015. 
2. ↑ Her Alexander Prize Essay was published as R. J. Mitchell, ‘English students at Padua”, TRHS, 4th ser., xix (1936), pp. 101 – 117
3. ↑ R. J. Mitchell,John Free. From Bristol to Rome in the Fifteenth Century (London, 1955), p. vii.
4. ↑ To the citations in Weiss’s bibliography could have been added R. J. Mitchell, ‘English students at Ferrara in the fifteenth century’, Italian Studies, i (1937), pp.75 – 82 and ead., ‘A Renaissance Library: The Collection of John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester’,The Library, xviii (1937), pp. 67 – 83; see also the authorial and editorial addenda at pp. 46, 175 and 180 below. Her John Tiptoft (1427 – 1470) (London, 1938) – a now rare volume as stocks of it were destroyed during the Blitz – was positively reviewed by Cecilia Ady in Italian Studies, i (1938), pp. 177 – 78 (though the journal attributes the work to ‘Ruth J. Mitchell’); cf. E. F. Jacob, EHR, liv (1939), pp. 362 – 63, A. Steel in History, xxiv (1939), pp. 143 – 45; A. L. Rowse in The Spectator, May 6, 1938, pp. 816 – 18, and [D. M. M. Morrah] in Times Literary Supplement, July 2, 1938, p. 445.